Company Profile

Interactuar is a Social Development Corporation. In 27 years, Interactuar’s mission has been to promote the creation & consolidation of more than 200,000 microbusinesses in the department of Antioquia, through the provision of a wide variety of microfinance & business development services for low income populations. Through these businesses, new employment opportunities were created & hope aroused in families who initially thought they could never make ends meet.

This model has brought significant results in Medellin & in the metropolitan area but also attended the needs of microentrepreneurs in 47 other cities in the Antioquia department. Interactuar offers financial services & also business development services.

Financial services include microloans ranging from 300,000 COP (US$ 160) to 40,000,000 (US$ 21.500), with loan term from 3 to 36 months. Microloans target the following areas:

• Working capital
• Fixed assets
• Business creation
• Loans to access Interactuar’s services

Interactuar also offers microinsurance products. This product ensures the following coverage to the microentrepreneur:

• Life insurance
• Compensation for accidental deaths
• Permanent & total physical disabilities
• Accidental dismemberments
• Upper & lower limbs fractures
• Second & third degree burns

Microinsurance products also ensure the following coverage for the microbusiness:

• Fire hazards, lightning strikes & explosions
• Earthquakes, avalanches, landslides & floods
• Riots, protests & strikes
• Third parties or terrorists’ malicious acts

Aside from financial services, Interactuar is renowned at the national & international levels for its business development services. Training programs are optional for clients and include the following: 

FOODS

• Bakery
• Meat
• Dairy products
• Fruits & Vegetable processing

PRODUCTION 
Interactuar trains & certifies according to international standards highly efficient & productive work force. Interactuar’s program includes training for the microentrepreneur and his operatives.

BUSINESS TRAINING 
Interactuar provides training to develop highly successful businesses. It enables trainees to receive an appropriate preparation & helps them develop their professional network. 

SHOPS, MINI MARKETS & SMALL BUSINESSES 
Through didactic shops, Interactuar trains shop keepers to systematize their operations & build a more efficient business model. 

BEAUTY PARLORS 
Interactuar offers theoretic & practical trainings through which microentrepreneurs acquire technical knowledge & abilities that enables them to create their own business in that particular economic sector. 

ADMINISTRATION & SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT 
Interactuar provides microentrepreneurs tools to be more competitive through the development of their administrative knowledge abilities & skills. 

GASTRONOMY, HOTEL BUSINESS & SMALL TOURISM 
Interactuar provides microentrepreneurs with a modern Training Center in Gastronomy, Hotel business & Small tourism sectors. This Center simulates real life case studies & is manned with personnel who are able to develop basic to high tech technics. Interactuar provides training courses in order for the microentrepreneur to differentiate his product in a highly competitive environment. 

Interactuar has won various awards both at the national & international level:

The Order of Industrial Merit in the category Grand Officer granted by the Colombian President and the Industry & Commerce Minister in 2008.

The award for excellent Business Development Services granted by the Inter-American Development Bank in 2006.